No money, no family16 in the middle of Miami

Nobody [in Australia] really likes hip-hop and I wanted to be a rapper, so I thought ‘If I’m going to do this, I have to go to America.’ Because otherwise, it’s not going to happen. I want to be really authentic. It would have been just me from a culture that I’ve never been in.

I told my mom I’m going on a holiday. She knew I was pressed because I felt like I was so isolated. So she was like, ‘OK, I’ll let you go on this holiday.’ She cried the day that I left and she was like, ‘Please be safe. If anything happens to you, everybody will say I’m a bad mom.’ When I got here, I went to Miami and it was the best thing ever and I called my mother and told her that I’m not coming home.